Recommended Tool for Feature-Hungry Technophiles: Diigo
Diigo has everything I’ve been looking for in a great social bookmarking/collaborative research tool—except ease of use. The tagging system is still buggy (renaming a tag or deleting it can lead to unexpected results), and the interface has some usability issues that I’ve already discussed with one of Diigo’s co-founders. For instance, tag clouds only display the first 18 characters or so of each tag, preferences on how to view your tags revert to default settings every time the page refreshes, etc. Unfortunately, Diigo is still too frustrating to use for me to recommend it to non-tech-savvy educators, but I hope its shortcomings will be resolved soon. If that happens, I’ll become a major Diigo evangelist. If not, I might have to embrace a more bare-bones bookmarking tool like Del.icio.us and search for a separate tool that just handles collaborative research well. Google Notebook is next on my list of tools to check out for that.
worldtechnology on 01 Jan 15The sound card is pretty much dead but the high end PC audio market is thriving.Most of the action is in USB DAC coupled with headphone amps & Creatives new Sound Blaster X7 can fill that role.But this device can do much more & its application is not limited to personal computers.This Sound Blaster can also be used with gaming consoles,smartphones,tablets,DVD players just about anything with an audio input or output.The Sound Blaster X7 an affordable audio powerhouse with just 2 intertwined shortcomings.There is no HDMI in or out so there is no support for high resolution movie sound tracks on Blu ray discs
